Locum Consultant Physician in Stroke Medicine - 216200 PM

NHS Scotland; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Lothian seeks a Locum Consultant Physician in Stroke Medicine for a fixed-term, full-time position at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. The role involves managing stroke patients, leading a dedicated team, and contributing to education and clinical research. Ideal candidates will have full GMC registration and relevant specialist training. Applications are encouraged from all sections of society, with a commitment to equality and diversity.

Qualifications

• Must have full GMC Registration and a license to practice.
• Evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or equivalent.
• Non-UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training.

Responsibilities

• Lead the hyperacute stroke team and oversee thrombolysis and thrombectomy.
• Contribute to undergraduate teaching and supervise junior doctors.
• Participate in clinical governance and quality improvement.

Skills

Stroke Management

Clinical Governance

Teaching

Education

Full GMC Registration

Higher Specialist Training

Job description

Locum Consultant Physician in Stroke Medicine
royal infirmary of Edinburgh

Reference - 216200

NHS Lothian is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

To this end, NHS Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

Applicants must have full GMC Registration, a license to practise and eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register. Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from the date of interview. Portfolio Pathway (formerly known as CESR - Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration) route doctors are only eligible to apply for a substantive consultant post once it has been awarded. Non-UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training.

Applications are welcome for the above Fixed Term, full time (40 hours per week) post based in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

This is a locum post to cover maternity leave and other vacancies. The successful applicant will join an enthusiastic and motivated team of stroke physicians. Our services have a passion for education, training, quality improvement and clinical research.

The job is for a Consultant in Stroke Medicine and will be for up to 10 PAs which will be split between hyperacute stroke management, integrate stroke unit, and TIA and life after stroke clinic. Less than full time working will be considered.

The postholder will spend their clinical time at the RIE and/or St. John’s Hospital with sessional commitments to leading the hyperacute stroke team responsible for assessing patients with acute presentations and overseeing delivery of thrombolysis and thrombectomy. This will involve ward rounds on the hyperacute stroke unit (HASU), care of patients in the stroke unit and involvement in the regular departmental consultant meetings, radiology, quality improvement and research meetings.

The post holder will contribute to the regional telestroke on-call rota which supports decision making out with 9-5 Monday-Friday and extended hours working on the RIE site into evenings and weekend days. Non-clinical interests are encouraged. The successful candidate will contribute to service planning; delivery of undergraduate teaching; supervision of junior doctors; clinical governance and quality improvement and growing the clinical research portfolio including acting as principal investigator (PI) for network sponsored trials.

More detailed departmental and specialty information can be found in the job description available via email address / link below.

For an informal discussion please contact:
Dr Amanda Barugh, Clinical Director
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SA
0131 242 6927 (secretary) [e-mail]

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We cannot accept CV’s as a form of application and only a completed online application form will be accepted. Personal information will not be sent with the application for short listing. The application form will be identified by the candidate number only to ensure that all applicants are treated equally.

***PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***

Closing Date: 14/06/2025